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KIC
Department of Anesthesiology & Reanimation
Faculty of Medicine, Unsri
palembang
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Definitions of death
In the unconscious state patient certainly
would not receive the agreement from the
patient and at least the doctor asks his
family, so there raise a question
When a patient considered dead?
When all medical support stopped?
Clinical death
Cerebral death, cortical death
Biological death
Social death
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No light response
No cornea reflex
No vestibulo-occular reflex
No motor response in distributing the cranial
nerves to the adequate stimulation in somatic
area
5. No vomiting reflex gag reflex) or coughing
reflex to the stimulation of the inserted suction
catheter into trachea
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Possible causes
Ototoxic drugs
Vestibular supressor drugs
Previous disease
No breathing
No motoric activities
Sedatives drugs
Anoxia
Hypothermic
Encephalitis
trauma
Fixated pupil
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